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  1. Oct 10, 2012 · Residential schools were government-sponsored schools run by churches. What was the purpose of residential schools? The purpose of residential schools was to educate and convert Indigenous youth and to assimilate them into Canadian society.

  2. Sep 30, 2024 · Davin recommended the government contract with churches to run industrial boarding schools that would take native children away from their families and communities and indoctrinate them in...

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  3. Jul 29, 2022 · Outsourcing assimilation. Canada’s residential schools were different from those in the U.S. in two significant ways. First, the Canadian government farmed out First Nations education to the...

  4. May 30, 2021 · Residential Schools and its Lasting Impacts on Indigenous Communities. Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes (TW: Violence, genocide, sexual violence) What are Residential Schools? Residential Schools were “schools” that were set up by the Canadian government but administered by churches.

  5. According to a 2021 report, the Canadian government paid more than $3 billion in compensation to residential school survivors. What is the Sixties Scoop? How is the child welfare system connected to colonization and residential schools?

  6. Will the Catholic Church pay financial reparations to those harmed by residential schools? The federal government has paid over $3 billion in settlements to residential school survivors. The Catholic entities that operated residential schools were part of the 2006 Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement (IRSSA).

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  8. For more than 200 years, religious orders run mission schools for Indigenous children — the precursors to the Government of Canada’s residential school system. Run by the Anglican Church, the Mohawk Institute in Brantford, Upper Canada [Ontario], becomes the first school in Canada’s residential school system. Opened in 1828 as the